Note 1 — 1658, March 9.

This name refers to Spitzbergen, which was then called Greenland, and which was thought by the voyagers of the day to be connected with Greenland proper. The early maps show Spitzbergen, which they term "Greenland or Spitzbergen," with Bell and Horn Sounds on the west coast and Cherie Island, named after Sir Francis Cherie, a few miles to the south. The country was also sometimes called East Greenland, while the modern Greenland was termed "Groenland." See especially the map of 1613 in Amer. Antiquarian Society Transactions, iv, 314; the map in Edward Pelham's God's Power and Providence, 1631, reproduced in A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland (Hakluyt Society), 1855; and map no. xiv in H. Moll's World Described, 1708-20.